Torchlight II

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Torchlight II ignites the franchise created and developed by Runic Games in this exciting sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Torchlight. Runic Games, located in Seattle, is a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, Fate, and Torchlight, which won the Game Developer’s Choice Award for Best Debut of 2009.

Torchlight II is richly textured with our unique art style, drawing from traditional animation influences and expanding on the whimsical and quirky world captured in the original Torchlight. We aim for that broad appeal that’s appropriate for older kids, but is really intended for the kid in every adult.

CO-OP ACTION

The most exciting new feature of Torchlight II is the multiplayer element. Play with your friends, and use the free peer-to-peer matchmaking service to meet new players of a similar level and interest. Together players will discover expansive randomized outdoor areas and deep ominous caverns; random instanced and persistent dungeons, a huge variety of all new monsters and villains, endless variations of loot to find, and quests to complete. Players journey through the perilous Overworld, enjoying all new weather features, time of day events, and a rich and cunning story to drive gameplay.

BACKSTORY

Beyond the town of Torchlight lies a world shrouded in adventure and mystery. Guardian-warrior Syl appears in a prophetic dream, summoning the player to the Estherian Steppes. There, you meet with the Destroyer and soon venture across the continent of Vilderan, an exotic frontier besieged by forces of evil. A discovery unfolds, that the Alchemist, following his conquest of dark ember, disappeared on his quest to defeat the unknown corrupted force responsible for destroying the mystical race of Estherians. Aided by Syl, the remaining Estherian Guardians, and clues left behind by the missing Alchemist, you will find yourself battling a powerful enemy that threatens to unravel the elements of the entire world.

Runic Games will release Torchlight II initially as a digital download in Spring of 2011.

KEY FEATURES

  • Multi-player – Play with your friends over a local area network, or over the Internet. A free matchmaking peer-to-peer service lets you make new friends for exciting co-op play.
  • Customizable Characters – Players create and customize a character from one of four classes available and choose an animal companion. Through cosmetic, class, and gender choices, skill path decisions, and the treasures they acquire, each character can be custom-tailored to each player’s needs.
  • Moddability – Torchlight II will release with an updated version of TorchEd, the Torchlight editor. Players have the option to create their own mods, adding even more content to the world. You and your friends can download the same mod and play together!
  • New User Interface – Torchlight II boasts an entirely new, improved user interface, designed to be easier than ever for new players to pick up and play. Thanks to this intuitive interface, players have immediate access to a rich and varied world, with little experience necessary.
  • Overworld Areas – Torchlight II has large randomized overworld areas to explore with weather, time of day cycles, and random events that provide players with even more content to experience.
  • Random Dungeons – Delve into randomly generated dungeons within the game at any time for extra experience and rare loot. Dungeons in Torchlight II have even more branching paths to explore with friends filled with random events, rewards and dangers.
  • Retirement System – Once characters are sufficiently leveled up, they can “retire” and bestow specific benefits and perks onto new characters.
  • Pets – Players choose a pet to accompany them. Pets level up along with the player, and help in battle, learn spells, carry items, and perform a variety of support services.
  • Fishing – Fishing returns in the sequel! Players can take a break from the high-energy pace of adventuring to relax by one of the many fishing holes and see what they can catch. Fish have unique benefits for the player and pet, while a number of other rewards can also be discovered.


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Guessing this is instead of the MMO they were apparantly doing? Glad this one will have multiplayer though, so badly needed it on the first game.
 
This is going to be interesting... My dissertation is on the balance of difficulty in Torchlight, would be interesting if they improved it before I handed my dissertation in...lol
 
KNiVES said:
Yes! Multiplayer. Glad to see the genre is seeing a resurgence :)
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We'll they're clearly going to try and get it out of the door before Diablo3, otherwise it won't get a lookin at all.

But the first game was awesome, but totally ruined back the lack of multiplayer. Whats the point of a game like that without mates to challenge for uberlootz? ;)
 
Woop!! Co-op! - Pah 2011

No idea why they couldn't do an update for TL to add Co-Op
 
Excellent! :D

First one was brilliant. Not as good as Diablo II or Titan Quest as I found it lacked depth (only one town, quests were all the same, etc.). Still a really good game though.

Maybe now that their team is a little more experienced with the current Torchlight we'll see some more depth.

Craig.
 
I thought they were busy making this into an MMO? They must have a decent sized studio if they are making a second single player game at the same time.
 
Note to self... copy my catalogue of mods and self-made changes so i can play it at my gfs...

Intrueging, but it'll be interesting to see what other changes they make since i can't see mods working too well with a MP community. There is just too much that can be changed.
 
Mp4 said:
Woop!! Co-op! - Pah 2011

No idea why they couldn't do an update for TL to add Co-Op
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I can't see a single way they could've done that. The game is just built for single player.

You'd need to overhaul basically everything to make it work, also the mods would probably screw with things. Everyone i know who has torchlight uses Torchleech and at least some mods because there is so much you want to tailor to yourself or think is just awkward to use.
 
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